Schedule for Academic Year 2002-2003

All talks held at Hunter College - Room HW706

September: Saturday 14 Click here for session program and abstracts

Sally Morrison, Bucknell University. "Differential Polynomial Algebra".
Jerry Kovacic, City College, CUNY. "Diffspec".
Earl Taft, Rutgers University. "Generating Combinatorial Identities from Solutions of Difference Equations...".

October: Saturday 19 Click here for session program and abstracts

David Marker, University of Illinois, Chicago. "Model Theory and Differential Algebraic Geometry I,II". For further information and references please go to http://www.math.uic.edu/~marker/ksem.html.
V.S. Varadarajan, UCLA and CIMS. "Commutative Algebra, Group Theory, and Meromorphic Differential Equations".

November: Please note that we will meet both Saturday and Sunday

Saturday 23 Click here for session program and abstracts

William Sit, City College, CUNY. "Linear Homogeneous Differential Equations, I,II".
Alexander Levin, The Catholic University of America. "Differential and Difference Dimension Polynomials".

Sunday 24 Click here for session program and abstracts

Manuel Bronstein, INRIA, Sophia Antipolis, France. "Regular bases for algebraic function fields", and "Special Function Solutions of y’’ = r (x)y ". For further information and references please go to http://www.inria.fr/rrrt/rr-3562.html or to http://www.inria.fr/cafe/Manuel.Bronstein/publications/issac2002.pdf.

Michèle Audin, Université Louis Pasteur and IRMA, Strasbourg, France. "Real non-integrability results: the example of the satellite, I,II".
Claude Mitschi, Université Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg, France. "Solvable-by-finite differential Galois groups".
Mark van Hoeij, University of Florida. "Descent for differential modules and skew-fields".
Lourdes Juan, Texas Tech University. "Generic Picard-Vessiot extensions and generic linear differential equations with group G ".

February: Saturday 15 Click here for session program and abstracts

Jerry Ianni, LaGuardia Community College, CUNY. "Algorithmic aspects of Abhyankar's Lemma".
Lucia Di Vizio, IAS. "Arithmetic characterization of the generic q-difference Galois group".
Li Guo, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey. "Baxter Algebras and Stirling numbers".

March: Saturday 15 Click here for session program and abstracts

Jean-Pierre Ramis, Université Paul-Sabatier (Toulouse) and Institut Universitaire de France. "The analytic classification of q-difference equations"
Evgueny V. Pankratiev, Moscow State University, Russia. "Standard Bases in Commutative and Differential Algebra"

May: Sat-Sun 10-11 Click here for session program and abstracts

Jerry Ianni, LaGuardia Community College, CUNY.
Ziming Li, University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. "Finding Exponential Solutions of D-Finite Systems". A full exposition can be found in "Factoring Systems of Linear PDE's with Finite Dimensional Solution Spaces"